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Published inJul 2022
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Rodrigo Juan Hernández
Rodrigo Juan Hernández
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Rodrigo Juan Hernández

Rodrigo Juan Hernández is an electronic engineer passionate about IoT even before it existed. He has been working on tech for more than 18 years until now. For several years he has been focusing on the IoT ecosystem. He is currently giving consultation about IoT systems to clients around the world. He also produces content online about IoT and related subjects and the content is available on his blog, Youtube channel, and social networks - mainly LinkedIn. He also writes for companies that need good quality content about their products and services. His main objective nowadays is helping others to understand and implement IoT solutions.
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Using the Home Assistant integration

Home Assistant is an open source home automation system. You can run it locally on your server or even on a Raspberry Pi. It’s a very mature project, which integrates more than 1,900 devices and services.

You can find all the documentation and the project files on its website at https://www.home-assistant.io/.

Although Home Assistant was born as a home automation system, you can also use it as part of an IoT system. You can, for example, integrate it with Grafana, InfluxDB, MQTT, and many other services and applications.

The Grafana Cloud service integration lets you monitor your Home Assistant instance, getting metrics from its services.

Important Note

To be able to scrap the Home Assistant instance from the Grafana Agent, you have to use the Home Assistant Core version. You can see how to install it at https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/linux#install-home-assistant-core.

Let’s see how to install and configure...

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Rodrigo Juan Hernández

Rodrigo Juan Hernández is an electronic engineer passionate about IoT even before it existed. He has been working on tech for more than 18 years until now. For several years he has been focusing on the IoT ecosystem. He is currently giving consultation about IoT systems to clients around the world. He also produces content online about IoT and related subjects and the content is available on his blog, Youtube channel, and social networks - mainly LinkedIn. He also writes for companies that need good quality content about their products and services. His main objective nowadays is helping others to understand and implement IoT solutions.
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